A rustic, hermit’s paradise owned by Rick Shane, stepbrother of Lacey Vedae (The Black Sheep Heir, SSE, early 2004) and Matt Shane (The Stranger She Married, SSE, 10/02). When Rick’s friends and family convince him to help ex-beauty queen, Daisy Cox, escape a doomed marriage, he begrudgingly flies her to St. Louis, fighting his overwhelming attraction for the runaway bride (There Goes the Bride, SSE, 02/03).